Rail plate



nec, 30, 1924.

1,521,181 R. .HOING RAIL PLATE Filed Aug. 24, 1921 Patented Een. 3Q,l24.

itlhli RUDOLF Home, or Essen, GERMANY.

RAIL PLATE,

Application led August 24, 1921.

Serial No. 494,889.

{GRANTED UNDER THE PROVISIQNS 0F THE ACT GF MARCH 3, 1921, 4l. STAT. L.,1313.)

To all whom t may con-cern.'

Be it known that I, RUDOLF Home, a citizen ot Germany, residing .atEssen, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inRail Plates, for which I have tiled applications in Germany, March T,1918; Belgium, March 8, 1921; Holland, March 30, 1921.; France, March 8,1921; Czechoslovakia, March 30, 1921; England, January 10, 1921, ofwhich the following is a specication.

My invention relates to rail plates and in particular' to plates of thehind in which en additional support of the rail on the sleeper isprovided by bent port-ions, Which penetrate into the sleeper.

In the drawings accompanying' this specifiation and forming partthereof, an embodiment of my invention is illustrated by Way of example.ln the drawings l is a vertical section and Figi'. a plan vieWvo a railand sleeper provided with my improved plate.

The plate b for the rail a is at iirst bent upwards at its lateraledges, so that a face f is .iiorn'ied Which is engaged by the spikehead. Gn this bent portion there is formed a downward bent portion o,whichis sharpened at 7e.. The heads of spikes (Z, on being,` driven, areforced against the inclined faces ol the plates with theircorresponding'faces e. so that the bent edges of the plate are re-,silionly bent downwards and penetrate into the sleeper With their edges71,. In this manner, the plate Z9 is firmly connected with the sleeper.The resilient double bent ends of the plate resiliently support thespike head, so that it does not become loose in the sleeper. Preferably,some vplay toward the center of the rail is provided at the holes 7through which the spikes pass. lt is also advisable to so form the platethat it is spaced away from the sleeper at point z'.

l claim:

l. i sheet metal tie plate for railways comprising a fiat middleportion, tivo lateral. portions bent into V-shape adjoining said middleportion and a spike hole on either side of said middle portion close toeach lateral portion.

2. A sheet metal tieplate for railways comprising` a middle portion inthe shape ot a` iiat channel with diverging' side Walls and a lateralportion extending at an acute angle from and in opposite direction toeach. side Wall, said middle portion being provided with spike holesnext to said side Walls.

A. sheet metal tie plate for railways comprising a middle portion in theshape of a iiat channel with diver-ging side Walls an d a lateralportion extending at an acute angle from and in opposite direction toeach side Wall across and belonv the plane ot said middle portion.

ln testimony Whereoi l al'lix my signature.

RUDOLF Home.

